Another interesting point is that both [1]} and [2]} assume mental states, well-delineated from all the other states. Such a process is going on in our sampling approach if one interprets a sample as a decision on an interpretation:
”It's a bird, or a plane, or it's Superman, but not all of them at the same time” (Dehaene 2017)
Dehaene talks about a similar process of “... collapsing all unconscious probabilities into a single conscious sample ...”. His model assumes a “winning neural coalition” whereas our sampling approach is much simpler, but maybe based on a similar computational need.
